Truman On Ike

April 12, 1988|By L.S. Johnson.

CHICAGO — I read in The Tribune that Harry Truman called Dwight Eisenhower surly and angry and said he ``never did anything as president.``

It took me about three seconds to come up with something that President Eisenhower had done. He brought to a quick end the carnage in Korea that had been created by Harry Truman. That was the American war that did not have the approval of Congress. It was also the war in which the American president expected American youths to give their lives while fighting under a no-win policy.